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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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Personal Development
"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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Personal Development
"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"God, life changes faster than you think."
Life
"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."
Hope
"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"
Thought
"We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour."
Time
"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."
Choice
"I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person."
Family
"Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone."
Writing
"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
Writing
"My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have."
Family
"My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten."
Time
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